Alice Morgan Person Collection, 1878-1943, 2004-2008, undated

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Alice Morgan Person Collection, 1878-1943, 2004-2008, undated

1878-2008

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/1116

Items related to Alice Morgan Person, the noted pioneer North Carolina woman inventor, manufacturer and saleswoman of "Joe Person's Remedy" a patent medicine including bills, receipts, ledgers, correspondence, papers, clippings, & printed materials, etc.

5.156 Cubic Feet, 702 items

eng, Latn

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11621203

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Person, Alice Morgan, 1840-1913

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jh707r (person)

Alice Morgan was born in 1840 near Petersburg, Va. She received most of her education at home. In 1857, she married Joseph Arrington Person, a wealthy planter from Franklin County, N.C. The couple settled at Person's plantation and had nine children. In 1863, Joseph Person organized a company of North Carolina volunteers. He soon was discharged from service, however, because of a disability. Shortly after returning home, he suffered a debilitating stroke that prevented h...